大学英语六级（2013年12月考试改革适用）-试卷215及答案解析.doc

1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）-试卷 215 及答案解析(总分：118.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Writing(总题数：2，分数：4.00)1.Part I Writing（分数：2.00）_2.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss the importance

2、of grammar in English learning. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：2.00）_二、Listening Comprehens(总题数：11，分数：50.00)3.Part II Listening Comprehension_4.Section A_A.80,000.B.100,000.C.400,000.D.800,000.A.Helping people start

3、their own small businesses.B.Providing accommodation for holidaymakers.C.Linking providers of spare rooms to holidaymakers.D.Linking providers of parking spaces to drivers.A.About 34,000.B.About 800,000.C.About 20,000.D.About 200,000.A.By collecting donations from its believers.B.By promoting its on

4、line religion services.C.By renting out its church for big ceremonies.D.By charging travelers money for using its parking spaces.A.In the basement.B.On the ground floor.C.On top floors.D.In the penthouse.A.In 236 BC.B.In the Middle Ages.C.During World War I.D.During the Industrial Revolution.A.Wind.

5、B.Gas.C.Steam power.D.Solar power.A.The US.B.Italy.C.China.D.Russia.5.Section B_A.She performed acting roles for TV shows.B.She sang for a local music group.C.She released her first music album.D.She joined a music tour of America.A.Best-selling Female Artist.B.Queen of Pop.C.MTV Video Music Awards.

6、D.The Star of Hollywood.A.She divorced her husband.B.She won a Grammy Award.C.She was engaged and married.D.She released her comeback album.A.It has the highest water cleanliness standard in Europe.B.It has the best natural swimming pool in Europe.C.It has the best purification specialist in Europe.

7、D.It has the cleanest river in Europe.A.Whether the water is clean enough.B.If it can be used in various weather conditions.C.If it will lead to less visitors.D.Whether the river traffic will be affected.A.To separate the changing rooms from the pool.B.To provide a path to the swimming area.C.To mak

8、e the pool shallow enough for children.D.To protect people from waves caused by river traffic.A.Environment agencies.B.The city of London.C.The state government.D.Public donation.6.Section C_A.Incidents of workers caused global anger.B.Kafala system leaves workers open to abuse.C.An Indonesian worke

9、r was starved to death.D.Migrant workers can be targets of abuse.A.Her supporters paid the family of the man she killed.B.She got help from the International Labor Organization.C.She argued that her employer was raping her at the time.D.She spent a month in a hospital because of her injuries.A.It ne

10、eds negotiation for better conditions.B.It requires at least a three-year suspension.C.It can become similar to human trafficking.D.It needs ILOs approval on Convention 189.A.His books have been sold worldwide.B.He can speak and write eight languages.C.His lifestyle is well-known in the world.D.He h

11、as been to many countries before.A.It appears in your physiology.B.It is in your value system.C.It is emphasized by philosophers.D.It carries its own beliefs.A.It is the centre of the world.B.It is not easy to reach.C.It has no room for lies.D.It is bright like the sun.A.Try to get what youve missed

12、B.Love the abundance you have.C.Think of ways to be better.D.Be satisfied with your past.A.Imitating the words in movies.B.Remembering words in a song.C.Listening and repeating words.D.Speaking the words to a rhythm.A.The three groups did exactly the same.B.The first group did the best in 4 tests.C

13、The second group performed better.D.The third group came out on top.A.Singing could lead to new ways of learning a foreign language.B.Learners shouldnt use music all the time to learn a foreign language.C.Language learners already know the value of using singing.D.Adults learn words better when rem

14、embering them in songs.三、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：8，分数：60.00)7.Part III Reading Comprehension_8.Section A_We might be living for longer than ever, but we are sick. About 95 percent of people have at least one health complaint, with a third of us having more than five. Becoming better at avoiding ear

15、ly death means we spend longer being 1to diseases and disabilities that result from our bodies wearing out. So 2, by pushing back death in the name of health, we are creating more disability overall than if we died younger. “The focus of health has been so much on tackling 3of death, rather than dis

16、ability,“ says Theo Vos of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of the authors of a study 4how patterns of disease and ill health have changed in 188 countries between 1990 and 2013. The number of years of healthy life lost globally rose from 537.6 million in 1990 to 764.8 million in 2013, a

17、 rise of 43 percent. The authors 5this mainly to population growth and ageing. Vos is 6, however, that the diseases and disabilities of ageing are 7being managed better, through better 8and healthier lifestyles. Some researchers say that a complete upheaval(大变动)in health systems is needed, which shi

18、fts resources from treating disease in hospitals to preventing diseases in the community and in peoples homes. “Dont wait for illness, invest in the 9of health,“ says Rifat Atun of Harvard University, the author of an accompanying commentary. “We cant manage these 10conditions in hospitals, so there

19、 needs to be an emphasis on maintaining good health, preventing disease and slowing progression of disease when it does happen,“ he says. “Theres no choice: It has to happen. “ A)attribute F)fatal K)maintenance B)causes G)gains L)pursue C)chronic H)generally M)reality D)confident I)gradually N)susce

20、ptible E)evaluating J)ironically O)treatments（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_10.Section B_Reporting From the Webs Underbelly A)In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebss identity a half dozen times, brought down his webs

21、ite, sent heroin to his doorstep, and called a SWAT team to his home just as his mother was arriving for dinner. Mr. Krebs, 41, tries to write pieces that cannot be found elsewhere. His widely read cybersecurity blog, “Krebs on Security“, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet. He covers

22、this niche with much the same perseverance of his subjects, earning him their respect and occasional angry. B)Mr. Krebs is so entrenched in the digital underground that he is on a first-name basis with some of Russias major cybercriminals. Many call him regularly, leak him documents about their riva

23、ls, and try to bribe and threaten him to keep their names and dealings off his blog. His clean-cut looks and plain-speaking manner seem more appropriate for a real-estate broker than a man who spends most of his waking hours studying the Internets underbelly. But few have done more to shed light on

24、the digital underground than Mr. Krebs. C)His obsession with hackers kicked in when he was just another victim. In 2001, a computer worm locked him out of his home computer. He started looking into it. And he kept looking, learning about spam, computer worms and the underground industry behind it. E

25、ventually, his anger and curiosity turned into a full-time beat at The Post and then on his own blog. D)Today, he maintains extensive files on criminal syndicates(联合会)and their tools. Some security experts readily acknowledge that he knows more about Russias digital underground than they do. “I woul

26、d put him up against the best threat intelligence analyst,“ said Rodney Joffe, senior vice president at Neustar, an Internet infrastructure firm. “Many of us in the industry go to him to help us understand what the Eastern European criminals are doing, how they work with each other and who is doing

27、what to whom.“ That proved the case in December when Mr. Krebs uncovered what could be the biggest known Internet credit-card robbery. That month, he had been poking around private, underground forums where criminals were bragging about a fresh haul of credit and debit cards. E)Soon after, one of Mr

28、 Krebss banking sources called to report a high number of fraudulent purchases and asked whether Mr. Krebs could discover exactly where they were coming from. The source said that he had bought a large batch of stolen cards from an underground site and that they all appeared to have been used at Ta

29、rget. Mr. Krebs checked with a source at a second bank that had also been dealing with a narrow sharp point in fraud, Together, they visited one forum and bought a batch of stolen cards. Again, the cards appeared to have one thing in common: They had been used at Target from late November to mid-Dec

30、ember. F)On the morning of Dec. 18, Mr. Krebs called Target. The companys spokeswoman did not return his call until several hours later, but by then he had enough to run his article: Criminals had breached the registers in Targets stores and had made off with tens of millions of payment card numbers

31、 In the following weeks, Mr. Krebs discovered breaches at Neiman Marcus; Michaels, the arts and crafts retailer; and White Lodging, which manages franchises for major hotel chains like Hilton, Marriott and Starwood Hotels. It is still unclear whether the attacks were related, but at least 10 other

32、retailers may have been hit by the same hackers that hit Target and are reluctant to acknowledge it. G)That is where Mr. Krebs comes in. Unlike physical crimea bank robbery, for example, quickly becomes publiconline thefts are hushed up by companies that worry the disclosure will inflict more damage

33、 than the theft, allowing hackers to raid multiple companies before consumers hear about it. Mr. Krebs is “doing the security industry an enormous favor by disseminating(宣传)real-time threat information,“ said Barmak Meftah, chief executive of Alien Vault, a threat-detection service. “We are only as

34、strong as our information. Unless we are very specific and effective about exchanging threat data when one of us gets breached, we will always be a step behind the attackers.“ The account of victims from the breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and others now exceeds one-third of the United States popu

35、lationa grim factoid(趣味小新闻)that may offer Mr. Krebs a strange sense of career vindication(澄清). H)He first developed an interest in computers because his father, an Air Force engineer, was obsessed with the latest devices. But he did little about it until 1998, when he began writing about technology

36、for The Post, after working his way up from the mailroom. Cybersecurity became a bit of a focus after his own computer was infected by that worm in 2001. I)In 2005, he started The Posts Security Fix blog, occasionally frustrating editors with hacker jargon and unnerving some who worried he was becom

37、ing too close to sources. By 2006, Mr. Krebs was a fixture in hacker forums, learning code, andever the dutiful reporterborrowing Russian language tapes from his local library since most of what he tracks originates in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states. In 2009, The Post asked Mr. Kre

38、bs to broaden his focus to general technology news and policy. When he declined, he was let go. J)He used his severance(解职金)to start his own blog, Krebs on Security, from his “command centre,“ a guest room at the Annandale, Va., home he shares with his wife. There, three 19-inch computer screens hel

39、p him keep tabs on the underworld, while another monitors security footage of his house. K)Mr. Krebss readership is growing. In December, 850 000 readers visited his blog, mostly to learn more about the breach at Target. Though he will not disclose figures, Mr. Krebs says the salary he now makes fro

40、m advertising, occasional speaking engagements and consulting work is a “nice bump“ from what he earned at The Post. But there are risks implicit to being a one-man operation. “The work that hes done exposing Eastern European hackers has been seminal,“ said Tom Kellermann, vice president for cyberse

41、curity at Trend Micro, a computer security company. “But Brian needs a bodyguard.“ L)Russian criminals routinely feed Mr. Krebs information about their rivals that they obtained through hacks. After that, he began receiving daily calls from a major Russian cybercriminal seeking his files back. Mr. K

42、rebs is writing a book about the experience, called Spam Nation, to be published by Sourcebooks this year. M)In the meantime, hackers have been competing in a dangerous game of one-upmanship to see who can pull the worst trick on Mr. Krebs. They often steal his identity. One opened a $ 20 000 credit

43、 line in his name. Admirers have made more than $ 1 000 in bogus PayPal donations to his blog using hacked accounts. Others have paid his cable bill for three years with stolen credit cards. N)The antics(滑稽的动作)can be dangerous. In March, as Mr. Krebs was preparing to have his mother over for dinner,

44、 he opened his front door to find a police SWAT team pointing semiautomatic guns in his direction. Only after his wife returned home from the grocery store to find him handcuffed did the police realize Mr. Krebs had been the victim of “swatting.“ Someone had called the police and falsely reported a

45、murder at their home. O)Mr. Krebs said he did plan to move and keep his new address secret. But these days it is almost impossible. Though he goes to great lengths to protect his personal information, last month his wife received an e-mail from Target informing her that their mailing address and oth

46、er personal information had been stolen in the breach. “I got that letter,“ he said, “and I just had to laugh.“（分数：20.00）(1).Many hackers are playing tricks on Mr. Krebs, which is seen as a competition.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).Mr. Krebs is working on a book about his experience fighting against the Internet crimes.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).Mr. Krebs arranged one room at home to be his office and equipped it with several computer screens.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).M